Abstract
With a few obvious exceptions, those of us who are surgeons must become geriatric surgeons. The population as a whole is aging, with the most explosive growth in the over 85 year group, and the conditions that require surgery (atherosclerosis, cancer, arthritis, prostatism, cataract, and others) increase in incidence with increasing age. Improving our care of the elderly surgical patient – the raison d’etre of this book – will become progressively more important to us all.
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Katlic, M.R. (2011). Principles of Geriatric Surgery. In: Rosenthal, R., Zenilman, M., Katlic, M. (eds) Principles and Practice of Geriatric Surgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6999-6_20
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